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#method
Api • Sci.pe
Schema actions and Flux architecture
Schema.org actions provide a shared vocabulary to expose to clients how an API can be exercised. Schema.org actions extend the hypermedia nature of JSON-LD by adding support for HTTP unsafe methods (PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH). It allows the creation of generic API clients…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Accuracy versus precision
is important to keep in mind the difference between accuracy and precision. Accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to its true value; precision refers to the repeatability of the measurement. If you have a bias in your measuring equipment, you might be very precise…
Guerilla Testing — Government Service Design Manual
Guerilla testing
Guerilla user testing is a low cost method of user testing. The term ‘guerilla’ refers to its ‘out in the wild’ style, in the fact that it can be conducted anywhere eg cafe, library, train station etc, essentially anywhere where there is significant footfall. [...] Guerilla…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
In philosophy there is no escaping history
In philosophy there is no escaping history. Ideally, I sometimes think, I would just like to tell my students the truth about a question and send them home. But such a totally unhistorical approach tends to produce philosophical superficiality. We have to know how it came about…
Forget the history and state the facts
My method in philosophy is to try to forget about the history of a problem and the traditional ways of thinking about it and just try to state the facts as far as we know them.
The Art Of Stoneworking
Respect for traditional working methods
I certainly do not want to belittle those who are maintaining traditional working methods.
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
Impactful papers need not be heavily cited
our method to assess the contribution of a paper means that a paper with high impact does not need to be extensively cited , however it needs to inspire a change in its domain or even define a new domain.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Selves are like paintings
The Irish philosopher Bishop Berkeley once wrote, ‘Philosophers have raised a dust and then complain that they cannot see.’ The cloud that obscures our view of the self has been thickened by the trampling of psychologists, scientists, theologians and sociologists too. In…
Armchair necessities contradicted by facts
These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always vulnerable to facts emerging on the ground which plain contradict them. People with Cotard Syndrome or transient…
Rigorous without being strict
This claim is only disturbing if you think ‘strict’ is the same as ‘rigorous’. We don’t have to lapse into obfuscatory fog just because we reject the possibility of logical rigidity. It goes back to the idea that we can be as precise as possible without being totally precise.